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MAY 10, 2021

Exposure to air pollution, even over the course of just a few weeks, can impede mental performance, according to a new study led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Air pollution levels were obtained from a site in Boston. They also explored whether taking NSAIDs could modify their relationships.

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

A new generation of robots with the intelligence and flexibility to handle the kind of variation that people take in stride is entering warehouse environments. A prime example is Stretch , a new robot from Boston Dynamics that can move heavy boxes where they need to go just as fast as an experienced warehouse worker.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Robot built by Boston Dynamics for the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2013. Boston Dynamics ] This is pretty cool: BruBotics is testing their self-healing robotics gripper technology on commercial grippers from Festo. Boston Dynamics ] Software by IHMC Robotics. Paper ] via [ BruBotics ] Thanks, Bram!

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MARCH 7, 2025

Boston Dynamics ] Im mostly impressed that making contact with that stick doesnt cause the robot to fall over. Robot Studio ] at [ University of Michigan ] Hard to believe that RoMeLa has been developing humanoid robots for 20 (!) My favorite part is 1:40, where Atlas squats down to pick a part up off the ground. Heres to 20 more!

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Team Explorer, the SubT Challenge entry from CMU and Oregon State University, is in the last stage of preparation for the competition this month inside the Mega Caverns cave complex in Louisville, Kentucky. Boston Dynamics ] Digit's engineered to be a multipurpose machine. We do this by first ensuring the robot's physically capable.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Audi has worked with MIT on other projects as part of a strategy to develop new technology and approaches with leading universities to better understand the conditions that lead to driver stress, and subsequently, to driver enjoyment. Preliminary trials have taken place in the Boston metropolitan area over a 12-month period.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

And here’s a second video with more technical detail on how the robot works: [ CMU ] Happy Holiday from Boston Dynamics! Boston Dynamics ] Is there a world where Digit can leverage a large language model (LLM) to expand its capabilities and better adapt to our world? This was just presented at the IEEE Humanoids Conference in Austin.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Scott Palo , professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, says that establishing an inter-satellite optical communications network is one of the biggest challenges in satellite-based wireless and broadband networks. Im in Boston, she says. I dont need satellite-based Internet.

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MARCH 31, 2015

—Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author. The population maps were developed by the WorldPop team, led by Andy Tatem at the University of Southampton. 2015) “A new urban landscape in East–Southeast Asia, 2000–2010” Environ. Resources. A Schneider et al.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Boston Dynamics put together a behind-the-scenes video of sorts about the Super Bowl commercial they did in collaboration with some beer company or other. Boston Dynamics ] Power-line perching could be an easy way for urban drones to keep their batteries topped up, but landing on power lines can be tricky. CMU RI ].

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois will conduct research to develop a composite plastic heat exchanger for a low temperature gas streams common in industry. Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation. Colorado State University. Iowa State University. Michigan State University.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a new study, engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps in multiple directions. Boston Dynamics ] What do the robots do on Halloween after everyone leaves? Queens University ] Thanks Josh! Happy Halloween!

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JUNE 10, 2019

With this analysis, we identified facetted pitting at the phase boundary, uniform corrosion rates from the steel surface, and data that suggest that a re-initiating galvanic corrosion mechanism is possible in this environment. The work was funded in part by Sandia’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development program.

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JUNE 24, 2013

The goal of this new center is to create a collaborative environment and concentration of technical capability to accelerate materials discovery and development, provide opportunities to transition new breakthroughs in advanced materials to industry, and offer training opportunities for young scientists and engineers.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Robotics Summit & Expo : 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023 : 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023 : 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, KOREA CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Enjoy today’s videos! Panelists: Elliot W.

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JUNE 21, 2023

In addition, the company is expanding external collaborations with specialized companies, startups and universities. Hyundai Motor has completed the construction of the Battery Joint Research Center at Seoul National University, which is scheduled to open in July this year.

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JUNE 9, 2009

Metro and commuter rail were modeled after the San Francisco Bay Area’s (SFBA) Bay Area Rapid Transit and Caltrain while the LRT modes are modeled after San Francisco’s (SF) Muni Metro and the Boston Green Line. In terms of GHG emissions, large aircraft on a total g CO 2 e/PKT basis outperforms Boston light rail (the Green Line).

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In contrast to our previous multi-contact videos where contact points for the feet and hands had to be specified manually by the user, this time all contacts are autonomously planned by the robot itself based on the perceived environment. [ The ballbot is actively compensating for the additional payload weight.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

Episode 1: Making Boston Dynamics' Robots Dance A new podcast from IEEE Spectrum, where award-winning robotics reporter and editor Evan Ackerman pairs up leading experts to pose the kind of questions no-one can ask.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

IROS 2021 – September 27-1, 2021 – [Online Event] Robo Boston – October 1-2, 2021 – Boston, MA, USA WearRAcon Europe 2021 – October 5-7, 2021 – [Online Event] ROSCon 2021 – October 20-21, 2021 – [Online Event] Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos, more below! Kodiak ] Thanks Kylee!

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APRIL 14, 2023

DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program recently conducted its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles. As at the previous events, teams from Carnegie Mellon University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Washington participated.

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APRIL 4, 2023

The R&D center will focus on building partnerships with Chinese universities and research institutes to secure core battery technologies, according to a report by Korea JoongAng Daily on April 2. Samsung SDI opened SDI R&D Europe (SDIRE) in Munich last July and SDI R&D America (SDIRA) in Boston last August.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

University of Nevada, Reno. University of California, Berkeley. Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. California State University Channel Islands. Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. Previously, our team was unique with our Boston Dynamic legged mobility. Team CERBERUS.

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JUNE 6, 2025

This new controller was trained in simulation, enabling Digit to execute tasks while navigating new environments and manipulating objects it has never encountered before. University of Michigan Robotics ] What’s the Trick? In this video, Digit is performing tasks autonomously using a whole-body controller for mobile manipulation.

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APRIL 21, 2023

Inspired by the adaptable nature of organic brains, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a method for robust flight navigation agents to master vision-based fly-to-target tasks in intricate, unfamiliar environments. Boston Dynamics ] What can robots actually do.today?

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JUNE 13, 2015

Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. Earlier post.). Previously the Robert R.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

In the 2010s, while teaching at Tufts University, in Massachusetts, she codeveloped the ScratchJr programming language and KIBO robotics kits, both intended for young children in STEM programs. So you need open-ended environments that allow children to explore and express themselves.

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MAY 20, 2025

IEEE Senior Member Takako Hashimoto Director, Region 10: Asia Pacific Prame Hashimoto is a professor and deputy to the president at Chiba University of Commerce , in Ichikawa City, Japan, where she specializes in data science, artificial intelligence, and information systems. Clem Karl, and Yong Lian. IEEE Life Fellow W.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Meet Tom, a software engineer at Boston Dynamics, as he shares insights on programming and testing the practical—and impractical—applications of robotics. Boston Dynamics ]. Roundtable discussion on how teaching automation in schools, colleges, and universities can help shape the workers of tomorrow. Naomi Wu ].

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JULY 1, 2022

With a strong lineage connected to Carnegie Mellon University, we're proud to maintain a presence in this great city. SRI ] Meet Josh, a mechanical engineer at Boston Dynamics. It can generate motions in rough environments for a variety of different gaits in real time.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The IEEE Life Fellow, who in 2006 was head of Tel Aviv University ’s Porter School of Environmental Studies , was at the school’s cafeteria with a meteorological researcher. She was hired by Tel Aviv University as an electrical engineering professor in 1986. Being a faculty member at a public university is the best job you can do.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Department of Energy is working with industry, universities, national laboratories, and other groups to develop technologies capable of harnessing these resources to generate environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive power. DOE Funding: $240,000. Total Project Value: $300,000. Resolute Marine Energy, Inc. DOE Funding: $142,000.

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JULY 22, 2023

VR headsets allow students to immerse themselves in realistic digital environments to learn math and science by solving real-world problems, such as calculating how high a house’s foundation should be raised to offset the risk of flooding. She has first-hand experience in education: She taught math and physics in Boston-area high schools.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Columbia ] Researchers at Stanford University have invented a way to augment electric motors to make them much more efficient at performing dynamic movements through a new type of actuator, a device that uses energy to make things move. Paper ] Thanks, Kelly!

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APRIL 12, 2024

Sanctuary AI ] “Suzume” is an animated film by Makoto Shinkai, in which one of the characters gets turned into a three-legged chair: Shintaro Inoue from JSK Lab at the University of Tokyo has managed to build a robotic version of that same chair, which is pretty impressive: [ Github ] Thanks, Shintaro!

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MAY 5, 2023

KIMLAB ] The Star Wars universe does have a thing for gold legged robots. Indoor Capture is the newest Skydio 3D Scan mode that is specifically tailored for autonomously scanning large, complex, indoor environments. NCCR ] Lex Fridman interviews Boston Dynamics CEO Rob Player. [ Please send us your events for inclusion.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Besides, autonomous cars live in a highly constrained action space within a semi-constrained environment, and Tesla cars in particular have plenty of well-known issues with their autonomy. This is why I think long term there will need to be universal basic income. I don't know why Musk thinks that he can suddenly do better. Crosswalks?

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